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Summary

Traditional views of global environmental politics take the structures and relations of international politics as a given. Solutions to environmental problems, then, must be products of concession, negotiation, and inevitable compromise&BAD:-a world of top-down planetary management. Lipschutz challenges students to question these conventional approaches. He argues that much light can be shed on global environmental degradation if we look beyond the politics of conflict and cooperation and explore environmental problems from their very &BAD:"roots.&BAD:"Using a framework that accounts for the ontologies, material conditions, and power relations that structure global environmental problems, Lipschutz is able to more effectively question attempts to clean up the globe and sustain the world's natural resources. Throughout the text, the author uses compelling cases to illustrate the effects of globalization and capitalism, yet is careful to make the link between the local and the global to show how we, as individuals, are both consumers of goods and producers of pollution.A powerful new approachHow is the financing of a water system in Bolivia linked to long-standing forestation practices in India?Taking nothing for granted, the root causes of major global environmental problems are exposed and subjected to rigorous analysis. Lipschutz shows, for instance, how privatization operates in different global contexts with strikingly similar consequences.In what ways are liberalism and realism actually two sides of the same coin?Both make self-interest&BAD:-of the individual and of the state&BAD:-key operating terms. In a revealing comparison, Lipschutz explores the limits of these dominant political models to effectively frame and solve environmental problems.What kinds of political, social, and environmental practices bring about meaningful change?By emphasizing the global impacts of local actions, the text shows how attempts to control environmental problems may actually reproduce the very systems they are meant to ameliorate.Combined with practical pedagogyRich historical background helps contextualize contemporary issues.Extensive suggested reading lists at the end of each chapter guide students to further research, while tables and figures elegantly show data and concepts.The emphasis on assessing the root causes of global environmental problems and models encourages critical thinking. Students are also encouraged to rethink their own role in the global environmental system and to get involved in effective forms of social change.

Author Biography

Ronnie D. Lipschutz is professor of politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he teaches courses on foreign policy, international politics, global environmental politics, ecological philosophy, and cold war film and fiction. He is the associate director of the Center for Global, International, and Regional Studies at UCSC and chair of the Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures

p. viii

Preface

p. ix

What Are "Global Environmental Politics?"

p. 1

Bananas

p. 1

Thinking about Bananas and Other Such Things

p. 3

Historical Materialism

p. 8

Power

p. 11

Ontology

p. 14

Thinking Socially

p. 18

The Many Roles of Nature

p. 19

Institutions for the Earth?

p. 21

What's in the Rest of This Book?

p. 25

Our Home Is Our Habitat, Our Habitat Is Our Home

p. 30

For Further Reading

p. 31

Deconstructing "Global Environment"

p. 33

Thinking Green

p. 33

Philosophy, Ontology, Epistemology

p. 34

Humans and Nature

p. 36

Environmental Ontologies

p. 38

Environmental Philosophies

p. 40

Deconstructing Environmental Philosophies

p. 43

Competition

p. 43

Cooperation

p. 51

Development

p. 59

Against Domination: Resistance Is Fertile!

p. 75

Thinking Ahead

p. 85

For Further Reading

p. 85

Capitalism, Globalization, and the Environment

p. 87

Effluents and Affluence

p. 87

Money, That's What I Want!

p. 90

Creating Property: The Scarcity Factor

p. 91

Externalities: Things for Which No One Pays

p. 97

Consumers 'R Us

p. 99

Wealth: Is It Good for the Environment?

p. 105

What's Nature Worth?

p. 108

Globalization and the Environment

p. 121

Chains, Chains, Chains!

p. 122

What Do You Know, and When Did You Know It?

p. 126

Can Capitalism Be Saved?

p. 128

Want Not, Waste Not?

p. 129

For Further Reading

p. 130

Civic Politics and Social Power: Environmental Politics "On the Ground"

p. 132

All Environmental Politics Are Local

p. 132

Why All Environmental Politics Are Local

p. 134

History, Political Economy, and Place

p. 135

The Structures of Contemporary Political Economy

p. 139

The Power of Social Power

p. 142

Is Collective Action a Problem?

p. 142

Collective Action Is Not a Problem

p. 144

Social Power: Against "Realism"

p. 146

The Origins of Contemporary Social Power

p. 149

Consciousness-raising

p. 151

Resource Mobilization

p. 153

Is Party Politics the Answer?

p. 156

Praxis: Agents Coming to Grips with Structure

p. 159

Social Power in Action

p. 162

Watershed Groups: The Mattole Restoration Council

p. 163

Environmental Justice: Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes

p. 166

Consumer vs. Corporation: "Doing It" in the Market

p. 168

Local Politics, Global Politics

p. 175

For Further Reading

p. 175

The National Origins of International Environmental Policies and Practices: "My Country Is in the World"

p. 177

The State and the Environment

p. 177

International Environmental Regimes: The Standard Account and Some Caveats